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12/13/12 5.0 Human Resources: Ensure high quality employee recruitment; the hiring, training, and retention of excellent employees; the provision of appropriate competitive benefits; and a safe work environment for city employees. 5.1 Phase in a plan to reorganize the HR function to include not only personnel, but also risk management, by 2015-16. 5.2 Continue to expand in-house knowledge of civil service requirements. 5.3 Manage and evaluate employee compensation. 5.3.1 Periodically conduct a salary survey, including identifying overtime as a percentage of annual pay, beginning with public safety in 2012-13. 5.3.2 Evaluate possible changes to the existing pay structure, competitive with sample cities, including a merit pay system. 5.4 Manage and evaluate employee benefits. 5.4.1 Periodically conduct a benefits survey. 5.4.2 Periodically evaluate and consider certain TMRS enhancements, including cost- of-living increases for retirees and 7/14 funding for active employees in 2013- 14. 5.4.3 Increase funding to employees to pay for employee health insurance, matching provider cost increases, beginning with 2013-14. 5.4.4 Evaluate possible insurance benefit enhancements. 5.4.5 Create a user-friendly, efficacious Employee Assistance Program (EAP). 5.5 Manage a high quality personnel system. 5.5.1 Review, and revise as appropriate, the current evaluation system, in 2013-14. 5.5.2 Periodically conduct comprehensive reviews of personnel policies, formally reviewing all policies at least once each every five years. 5.6 Plan for and meet appropriate staffing needs. 5.6.1 Evaluate overall staffing needs through a comparative survey and/or personnel audit(s), beginning in 2013. 5.6.2 Create and maintain a ten-year staffing plan. 5.6.3 Create a minority recruitment program. 5.6.4 Assist police and fire achieve their workforce diversity goals. 5.6.5 Evaluate opportunities to assist certain local felons in finding temporary and permanent employment. 5.7 Develop written career ladders for all employee positions, by 04/14. 10